Frattesi Stuns Bayern To Leave Kane In Pain After Miss

Bayern Munich have everything to do if they are to claim the Champions League on home turf.

- Nick Ames

This was a party thoroughly spoiled by Inter Milan, who might have feared the worst when Thomas Müller scored a rapturously-received equaliser five minutes from time. Müller's 25-year spell at Bayern will end this summer and everybody thought they could read the script. Then the substitute Davide Frattesi ripped it up, adding to Lautaro Martínez's brilliant opener and exacerbating the potential costliness of a glaring first-half miss from Harry Kane.

"Kings of the cup", a display from Bayern's Südkurve had read before kick-off. In fairness Bayern genuinely believe they are: Real Madrid are the only institution with as discernible an aura, regardless of who is rolled out, when the Champions League reaches its business end. The sense was they would require that confidence in a tie that had looked delicately poised. Alphonso Davies' serious knee injury, sustained on international duty to Bayern's fury, was one thing; the absence of Dayot Upamecano was another and then, last Friday, came the hamstring tear that stacked odds in Inter's favour.